Shaping Sustainable Electronics

From 15 to 19 June 2026, the second edition of the SUSTAIN-E Summer School on Sustainable Electronics will take place in Grenoble, France, bringing together students, researchers and industry to advance sustainable electronics. The programme addresses key challenges in sustainable electronics – from design and production to use, recycling and circularity.

New Innovation Cluster Strengthens Rhine-Main Region

Leading stakeholders from medicine, academia and industry in Darmstadt are establishing a Health Care Innovation Cluster. The aim is to strengthen the Rhine-Main region as a hub for applied health research, AI-based medicine and clinical innovation. The cluster promotes networking, clinical trials and spin-offs, and creates new infrastructures for research, knowledge transfer and healthcare provision.

‘LLMentor’ supports lecturers in assessing and providing feedback on academic texts

Learning scientific writing requires precise feedback, which is a particular challenge in very large courses with many participants. In the Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt, the AI assistance system ‘LLMentor’ is therefore being used for the first time to support the assessment of students’ exposés and peer reviews for final theses. The tool reduces the workload for lecturers and promotes consistent feedback – without taking decisions out of the lecturer’s hands.

More than 300 Uniters are working on the Alliance’s roadmap towards 2030

From February 9 to 12, Politecnico di Torino hosted the XIII Unite! Dialogue. More than 300 representatives from the nine Unite! universities – students, researchers, and staff – gathered in Turin to shape the strategic direction of the Alliance towards 2030. Under the theme “From a short-term Erasmus+ project to a long-term alliance for EU competitiveness”, the Unite! community worked on the funding proposal for the 2026–2028 period and on strengthening the integration of Alliance activities within the structures of the individual partner universities.

RMU Research Training Group meets for mid-term conference

Since 2023, the Research Training Group ‘Standards of Governance’ at TU Darmstadt and Goethe University Frankfurt – both part of the Rhine-Main Universities (RMU) – has been conducting research on the concept of ‘good governance’. At a conference, the researchers exchanged ideas on their research questions – ranging from supply chain legislation to forest protection. Spokesperson Professor Jens Steffek provides insight in an interview.

Inspiring the Next Generation of European Engineers

From 11 to 15 May 2026, more than 200 master’s students, PhD candidates, researchers, professors and administrative staff will gather with industry representatives, for interactive sessions and engaging lectures for the third edition of the Unite! Research School (URS).

TU doctoral student honoured at prestigious conference

Although climate scientists, medical professionals and economists study different complex systems, they all ultimately want to understand what is happening and, more importantly, why. To achieve this, they search real observational data for causal relationships that determine the course of diseases or changes in climate patterns, for example. TU doctoral student Nicholas Tagliapietra and other researchers have developed a new AI-based method that can automatically recognise cause-and-effect relationships. Unlike previous methods, it can also process irregularly recorded data. In January, the researchers received the prestigious Outstanding Paper Award at the 40th Annual Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) for this new approach.

Applications for the Dr Hans Messer Foundation Prize can be submitted until 28 February

In 2026, the Hans and Ria Messer Foundation will once again award the Dr Hans Messer Foundation Prize and double the prize money to 100,000 euros. The application period ends on 28 February.

TU President participated in campaign by Rhine-Main universities

With their joint campaign “Waffles for Students,” the Rhine-Main Universities (RMU) have set an example for active cooperation and direct dialogue with students. TU Darmstadt was also part of the initiative: President Tanja Brühl handed out freshly baked waffles at the Bistro Stadtmitte today and talked to students.

RMU Job Portal Goes Live

RMU is consolidating the wide range of career opportunities across the entire alliance in a joint job portal. Here, you will find current vacancies ranging from traineeships in administration or technical fields to professorships—offering excellent career opportunities in academia as well as in the many areas that support academic work.

Applications now open – video promotes research-intensive studies

What fascinates young scientists about particle accelerators? What research opportunities does the Rhine-Main region offer? And why is a separate master's program for accelerator science necessary? Prof. Dr. Joachim Enders and physics student Fatemeh Moujani provide answers to these questions in a new video interview about the master's program in Particle Accelerator Science at the Rhine-Main Universities.

Since 2022, the DFKI in Darmstadt has focused on systemic AI, which involves combining different AI methods to create powerful overall systems. What started as a laboratory has become a permanent DFKI location. To celebrate its first anniversary, stakeholders from the worlds of science, industry and politics gathered to learn about the latest research projects of the three Darmstadt research departments.

Unite! invites you to Turin from 9 to 12 February 2026

The XIII Unite! Dialogue will take place at Politecnico di Torino in Italy from 9 to 12 February 2026. More than 300 participants from the nine partner universities of the alliance are expected. The central theme of this Dialogue: “From short-term Erasmus+ projects to a long-term alliance – a contribution to the EU’s competitiveness.”

Lecture at TU Darmstadt

On 9 February 2026, the rhine-main neuroscience network (rmn²) invites interested parties to its annual lecture series.